France, the bitter rival in various meanings, has been struggling to make ends meet since winning a Drouet Cup in England. This time, Germany finally caught the opportunity to laugh at this neighbor, because their performance in the World Cup was much better than their opponents. With the goals of veteran Marco Bode and striker Klose, Germany beat the African lion Cameroon 20, 1 draw and 7 points, and Ireland joined hands to advance to the third world war, and even swallowed 12 points without scoring a goal. Playing Saudi Arabia, if it is an accident, I am afraid that it will be extremely anxious. It is also possible that competitors such as China and Slovenia, which have lost three consecutive games, will win the last place in the World Cup rankings.
There is nothing to say about the match between Group B and Group C. Spain and Brazil, two powerful teams, locked in a qualifying quota early, and finally advanced to the first round with their heads held high after three victories. Paraguay, led by chilavert, and Costa Rica and Turkey were squeezed out by goal difference. They got the other two qualifying quotas, but before the World Cup, they claimed to score one goal and win one game. A new World Cup army realized that they were only three goals away from the international mainstream football and ranked second to last in the top 32 rankings.
Group F, the socalled death group, also scored the victory and defeat the day before Italy played Mexico. Facing the dazzling onetoone abandonment of the team on the big screen of the stadium, Crespo chose to believe that batistuta Belsa, the old god of war, led the favourites to win the championship. Argentina finally lost one win, one draw and one loss in the group stage and watched Sweden and England jointly advance to the quarterfinals.
In this way, after France, the favourite to win the World Cup, Argentina, another favourite to win the World Cup, also bid farewell to the World Cup and went back to his hometown for fishing.
Now it’s Italy’s turn to decide whether to go fishing with France and Argentina or advance to the knockout stage with Spain and Brazil, depending on the result of their confrontation with Mexico.
At 7: 30 pm, in the dressing room of Italy’s national team at Oita Stadium in Japan’s Kyushu Island, Zoff is waiting for a large group of players to announce the starting list of Italy’s onsite games.
Now I’m going to announce the starting lineup tonight. I hope you can keep quiet in the process. It seems that this game will directly determine whether Italy can qualify for the qualifying. Zoff’s face has always been more grim, which makes the Italian dressing room a lot more chilling. We still take the 442 formation in the starting eleven, but the goalkeeper is gianluigi buffon’s left back …
Listening to Zoff’s name, Italy’s international players are sitting in their seats with happy or sad expressions. Those players who have got the starting opportunity are naturally very happy. For example, Pirlo and Totti are all gearing up for the team to contribute their strength. Those players who are in the starting lineup feel a little lost. They all represent Italy in the World Cup. Who doesn’t want the attention of the head coach to show their elegance on this top stage?
wow! There are a lot of fans coming to see our game today! After walking out of the player channel, Inzaghi first observed the surrounding situation and then muttered to vieri beside him, Christian, it seems that the Football Association’s friendship with Japan over the years has still had some effect. You see, this place is about to become our Italian home.
Hearing Inzaghi’s chanting, vieri looked up and found that Pi Bo was right. The stands were not only filled by the fans who had arrived at the scene early, but also supported the Italian fans in terms of numbers and momentum.
It’s really … it seems that we can’t do it without working hard today, Philip. Looking at the fans in the stands who are holding slogans and shouting slogans to support their own team, vieri muttered to himself. He is very emotional. He doesn’t want to disappoint these loyal fans, and he doesn’t want to see Italy go home at the end of the group stage!
With this in mind, vieri clenched his fists and decided to show Mexicans what he would be called the world’s number one center!
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That’s true. If we don’t work hard, maybe we will become the second defending champion in the history of the World Cup. Inzaghi replied with a smile that Italy is not optimistic, and the qualifying situation has not brought him too much pressure. After several big waves in Florence, this difficulty will not be taken seriously by Inzaghi. By the way, Christian, if I remember correctly, now your total World Cup goals are eleven?
I said, Philip, which subject did your math teacher teach? Hearing a friend ask vieri to correct Inzaghi’s mistake, he said with a puzzled look, I scored nine goals in the World Cup, and this time I scored three more goals. Anyway, it adds up to twelve goals. How come one is missing from your mouth?
So far, vieri has scored three goals in the last World Cup. He has scored a full 12 goals in the two World Cups, successfully surpassing famous strikers such as Klinsmann, Cochise and Reinkel, and tied for the third place in the World Cup top scorer list with Roberto Baggio (note that vieri scored nine goals and Roberto Baggio scored five goals in the World Cup in 9 years).
He was able to score 12 goals in the World Cup and rank among the top scorers. The total number of goals was only in Gerd Müller, Fontaine and Brazil’s soccer king Pele. He respected Roberto Baggio and other senior players to keep abreast of the list. This is something that vieri has always been proud of. After all, even top scorers and superstars like Puskas and Van Basten did not reach vieri’s total number of goals in the World Cup. Why not make him proud?
Ah, ha, ha, I’m sorry, it’s really my mistake. Inzaghi carefully thought about it and found himself really missing a bit. He smirked at vieri embarrassedly and hurriedly brushed him off this mistake. Let’s get down to business first, or I’m afraid I won’t have time to tell you these things after the game later.
oh? What can you do for me? Vieri looked at his friends and asked funnily, Which nightclub do you like and need me to accompany you in the past? Or did you see which beautiful reporter wanted me to give you a hand?
Go to you. Don’t you think I have nothing to come to you except these accidents? Inzaghi walked towards the middle circle of the stadium and criticised him. Let’s just say, Christian, I wonder if you are interested in hitting Mueller’s record of 14 goals in this game? If you have an idea, I and the little Roman in the back will be happy to give you a chance to make the ball.
Wait … Philip, what did you just say? Vieri looked at Inzaghi in disbelief, looked at his friend with alien eyes and said, Did I hear you right? You said you were going to give me the ball in the game? Haha, does the sun rise in the west today?
hey! I’m seriously discussing this with you. Be serious, okay? ！” Seeing vieri’s expression, I know that the other party certainly didn’t take it seriously. Inzaghi once again stressed that he didn’t want this opportunity to be lost by this good friend. After all, it’s not an easy thing to say Totti, especially after Rome won the Serie A trophy a year ago, the arrogant part of the Roman king’s character has been expanding. Now Totti is no longer satisfied with the position of attack organizer and tries to seize part of the fire in vieri and Inzaghi.
This is also the main reason why both Tony and Montera in Rome are not good with Totti at presentyou dare to shoot anywhere you want, and you will only remember when you don’t want to shoot. You can’t shoot a few of us and show us that you can’t afford to have such a teammate!
If it weren’t for Montera, their professionalism was quite good, and these things would be stirred up in the team, I’m afraid it is really impossible for Rome to win the third place in Serie A next season.
Although Totti’s style of play has obviously changed in the last year, it is obvious that Totti, a junior in the Italian national team, is still afraid to make a mistake in front of big brothers such as vieri, and even grabbing fire before is only at some unimportant times. If Inzaghi and vieri are really dissatisfied with this, Totti is likely to lose his hardwon main position!
After all, there is no shortage of players who can replace Totti in Italy, from the old Roberto Baggio to Mesozoic pierrot to the younger Piero and Cassano. They all have the ability to replace the Roman king in the national team. Therefore, when Inzaghi personally asked Totti to cooperate with vieri in this game, the Roman king naturally had no reason to refuse.
At the peak of that year, Mancini refused to be Roberto Baggio’s substitute for the World Cup. As a result, the representative of Golden Sampdoria has been from Italy’s national team since then. Totti doesn’t want to be a Mancini here.
Haha, I’ll thank you guys for your strong support here first. vieri smiled and patted Inzaghi’s shoulder and nodded to Totti behind him to thank him, and then said, It was agreed in advance that brushing goals can be done, but it can’t delay the team’s victory. After all, now our qualification is not guaranteed. If the team is out because of brushing data, we will all be Italian football sinners.
Don’t worry about this naturally. Inzaghi is not stupid. He certainly knows which is more important, brushing data or winning. Therefore, for vieri’s request, he of course readily promised, We will follow the normal routine before locking the victory. If we are ahead by a big score, let you shoot a few more feet to brush the goal.
Vieri nodded and said that although he was interested in breaking Gerd Müller’s dusty record for more than 30 years, it was not very urgent. After all, if he could make it to the knockout stage smoothly, would he still worry about not having a chance to score?
Of course, it would be great if we could help the team qualify and break the Muller record at the same time.
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Because of vieri’s statement before the game, when the game was officially held in the referee’s whistle, the Italian players were still very cautious on the court and did not launch a storm because of the group qualifying pressure. After all, the result of this game was that they could not help but qualify for Italy.
Carefully, the Italians are more active than the Mexican players. Many Borghetti and Blanco, the frog leaping king, formed a forward line. From the beginning of the game, Molares, Arellano, torrado and others formed an active midfield support, constantly looking for a fatal opportunity in the Italian penalty area.
It’s no wonder that Mexico scored six points in the first two group matches. At present, the qualifying situation is extremely favorable for them. If they want to draw, they can advance to the first round of the group. In addition, although Mexican players have good physical quality and consciousness, they often prefer to attack freely and play tricks on their opponents with their skills rather than retreat to fight their opponents’ defensive counterattacks in the half court. Otherwise, Blanco could not have made such an amazing example in the French World Cup. It is natural and reasonable for Mexican coach aguirre to let the players take the initiative in this game.
In the face of Mexican players, it seems that the Italian players did not panic. Under the command of Maldini and Starr, they quickly set up a heavy defense line in the square half, looking for a chance to launch a quick counterattack while resisting the opponent’s attack.
Italy was lucky. Only two minutes after the game, they got a good chance to fight back. When Molares broke Zambrotta with the ball, he accidentally fouled and gave Italy an Italian ball near the right touchline. albertini was responsible for the penalty. After the ball entered the crowd, the Mexican defender headed the ball to clear the box. Pirlo drew a beautiful curveball under the interference of people!
It is a pity that Pirlo’s shot of football bypassed oscar perez’s fingers, but it hit the right column of the goal and popped up the bottom line. Unfortunately, it failed to reach the Italian record.
With the help of the goalpost, the Mexican player broke out in a cold sweat, and soon returned to the color. Arellano kept an eye on Maldini and forced the middle to meet Borghetti. Although he bypassed Buffon’s blockade, he was countered by Cannavaro at the goal line!
Because both teams almost scored goals in the first exploratory attack after they were present, both players became more and more cautious on the court in the following games, and they were all worried that they would give their opponents a chance to score goals because of their negligence.
In this stalemate, Totti, Pirlo, Di Biagio and albertini’s midfield quartet showed that although they were one less than Mexico, which was the main formation in 352, they did not lose to their opponents’ technical level, and their team playing style was even better than each other’s overall situation, which gradually gave Italy an advantage in the midfield confrontation.
Finally, in the 26th minute of the game, I mastered the initiative of the game. The Italians dispatched Pirlo and albertini to launch an offensive against the Mexican goal!
Seeing Pirlo cross the midfield line with the ball, torrado pushed him in the first place, trying to take advantage of his body to grab the ball. In torrado’s eyes, although the Italian team No.21 has good skills, his thin figure should be an easy guy to deal with, and this guy will never be his opponent.
However, after all, torrado underestimated Pirlo. You should know that Pirlo has been growing sturdily through targeted training in Florence. Mullenstein and moniz tailored his training plan to make his outstanding football talent get a good development, and he did not have to be abandoned for a long period of time because he didn’t get a chance to play in his previous life. So now Pirlo is much stronger than the same period in history. Obviously, a torrado can’t be his opponent!
Although Pirlo is still able to confront opponents like Gattuso and others in defense, he can rely on his prediction to defend or help his teammates to defend, but he has made great progress in physical fitness so that he can run for 90 minutes without physical crisis.
Not to mention the ability in attack and organization. Although Florence is one of the top four players this season, Pirlo’s ability has been unanimously recognized by people. He has taken over the mantle of Lei Dongduo as a master of midfield art, but he still lacks stability. Otherwise, Pirlo would have become one of the top international midfielders long ago.
Therefore, in the face of the menacing situation, torrado was in good shape. Pirlo was unhurried and clever. Instead of having too much physical entanglement with the opponent, he played a standard twoone match with albertini and got rid of the Mexican midfielder’s entanglement as quickly as possible and grabbed the opponent’s possession. When he sent a precise straight ball!
At this time, I found the opportunity. Inzaghi jumped out of the corner of attention with great agility and grabbed Pirlo’s scalpellike ball at the top of the arc of the restricted area in Mexico before Raphael Max was cleared!
Seeing this, Inzaghi came out of nowhere and got the ball. Max couldn’t help but be shocked. Although he didn’t play against Pi Bo directly before, he still knew something about Inzaghi’s ability to play for Monaco Club. Therefore, Max decided to pounce on the other side without giving Inzaghi an adjustment opportunity!
I have to say that Max’s move is quite wise. If he had just hesitated, Inzaghi would have started to knock on the door directly after the adjustment! Although Inzaghi’s strength is definitely not as good as vieri’s, he is still very threatening as a professional shooting striker who shoots from the top of the restricted area.
Now Max’s decisive grab not only blocked Inzaghi’s shooting angle to the maximum extent, but also bullied an opponent with his physical advantage, forcing Inzaghi to make mistakes. After all, everyone knows that Inzaghi’s thin body and poor technique are not good at protecting the ball, and it is appropriate to fight against the lost ball base with one body.
If the defense is successful this time, maybe there will be a wave of counterattack, Max thought proudly in his mind.
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However, when Max was complacent, Inzaghi didn’t make a mistake in his snatch as he expected, so that he could break the ball smoothly and take this opportunity to lead Mexico to play a wave of quick counterattacks to help the team regain the initiative, but made a move that was unexpected to Max!
See Max blunt come over to his Inzaghi heart did Sarah laugh early care about, he first deliberately pretended to panic, ready to pull the angle to force his foot to knock on the door to lure the other side to speed up the grab, and then seize this opportunity to gently poke the ball from Max with his legs wide open due to acceleration to vieri in the penalty area!
… Looking at the ball flying from his crotch and looking at the sly face in front of him, Inzaghi Max said in his heart that it’s unscientific, that technology is terrible, and there is a goal striker in his eyes. How can he play such a difficult job of wearing a crotch ball?
No wonder Max thinks it’s cheating. After all, who would have thought that Inzaghi, who has always regarded goals as life, would choose the ball for other teammates at this time?
In fact, Inzaghi sometimes played the ball in his previous life. He also assisted Roberto Baggio to score a goal in the French World Cup, which is the best evidence. However, this situation does not happen much. On the one hand, when he played for Juventus and AC Milan, he was positioned as a pure shooter who was responsible for scoring goals. Zida, Rui Costa, Seedorf Pirlo and other midfield masters were responsible for the ball. Naturally, he did not need to worry too much about it. On the other hand, because Inzaghi likes scoring more than the ball, he will naturally give priority to shooting when he gets the ball. When he thinks of the ball, there is nothing for him …
However, at this time, Inzaghi knew from the very beginning what he should do most, so he chose the ball at a very appropriate time. After all, before the game, he also made a guarantee with vieri and said that he would try his best to support him in attacking Gerd Müller’s record of individual total goals in the 14ball World Cup. Naturally, he should take practical actions to prove to vieri that his words before the game were not nonsense. Moreover, the latter is in a better position than him at this time, and his oneonone hit ability is stronger. It is really unreasonable not to give him the ball
On the other hand, Inzaghi’s ability to wear the Max crotch this time is purely his luck. You know, although he has been training with technical players such as Lei Dongduo and Ronaldo for so many years in Florence, Inzaghi’s technical ability is not much higher than that in his previous life. He is still the first worldclass, second Serie A, third amateur striker like the one who just wore the crotch ball, even if Inzaghi is kicked ten times under the same conditions, he may not be able to reproduce it again.